The Buyer Book · customs heading 8530

Who buys railway and traffic signalling equipment in the public sector.

1,086 public bodies issued 1,863 notices for goods in this family across 33 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 1.8bn of it in 2024. Here are the counts, country by country. The names are the book.

1,086public buyers, named in the book
1,863goods notices in the family
33countries with at least one notice
USD 1.8bnimported by those countries in 2024
Country by country

The counts are free. The list is withheld.

Ranked by notices in the family. A US count is federal contract actions, delivery orders included, so it is not comparable with a European notice count: compare buyers within a country, and use the import bill to compare countries.

  1. FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices273
    Public buyers218
    Imports 2024USD 90m
  2. GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices198
    Public buyers139
    Imports 2024USD 149m
  3. SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices175
    Public buyers119
    Imports 2024USD 96m
  4. AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices143
    Public buyers8
    Imports 2024USD 65m
  5. United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026
    Goods notices128
    Public buyers74
    Imports 2024USD 106m
  6. CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices119
    Public buyers23
    Imports 2024USD 109m
  7. Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices113
    Public buyers35
    Imports 2024USD 48m
  8. PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices99
    Public buyers65
    Imports 2024USD 56m
  9. RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices87
    Public buyers53
    Imports 2024USD 30m
  10. NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices85
    Public buyers62
    Imports 2024USD 50m
  11. ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices64
    Public buyers58
    Imports 2024USD 30m
  12. CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices38
    Public buyers8
    Imports 2024USD 14m
  13. SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices37
    Public buyers25
    Imports 2024USD 26m
  14. BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices36
    Public buyers31
    Imports 2024USD 60m
  15. BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices30
    Public buyers20
    Imports 2024USD 6m
  16. PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices30
    Public buyers19
    Imports 2024USD 20m
  17. SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices29
    Public buyers16
    Imports 2024USD 28m
  18. AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices16
    Public buyers8
    Imports 2024USD 63m
  19. IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices16
    Public buyers13
    Imports 2024USD 18m
  20. GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices15
    Public buyers12
    Imports 2024USD 9m
  21. SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices15
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 11m
  22. FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices14
    Public buyers10
    Imports 2024USD 23m
  23. HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices14
    Public buyers8
    Imports 2024USD 132m
  24. LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices14
    Public buyers7
    Imports 2024USD 3m
  25. LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices14
    Public buyers10
    Imports 2024USD 4m
  26. DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices12
    Public buyers8
    Imports 2024USD 38m
  27. NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices11
    Public buyers8
    Imports 2024USD 40m
  28. SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices11
    Public buyers10
    Imports 2024USD 52m
  29. EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices10
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 6m
  30. United StatesUSAspending, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices10
    Public buyers7
    Imports 2024USD 448m
  31. MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices4
    Public buyers4
    Imports 2024USD 607k
  32. CyprusTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices2
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 2m
  33. LuxembourgTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 11m
Withheld here

The full Buyer Book names the ten most frequent public buyers in every country above, with one notice title each as the buyer published it, the three largest source countries of the import bill, and the record and window behind every count. It is a document, bought by email. No award value appears in it, and no supplier: companies appear only as public buyers.

How it is counted

Two public records, joined.

The join from a buyer's procurement code to a customs heading runs through crosswalks BuzzBaboon authored, because no official one exists, so it is approximate: a count is a product family, never a claim that a buyer bought one exact line.

A notice counts only when the buyer classified the purchase as goods and its code matches a specific crosswalk key, never a broad division. Identical rows count once; US prime-vendor ledger rows are left out. The import bill is CEPII BACI for 2024, summed over the heading's six-digit lines: what crossed the border, public and private buyers together.

What it cannot tell you

A list of where to look.

Which company won any notice, what any award was worth, or whether a buyer will buy again. The records carry framework ceilings and typing errors, so values are never shown. Award records are those of 33 countries that publish one openly with at least 500 notices a year; a country missing here publishes none this record can read. Nothing on this page is a forecast or a promise.

Sources: TED, USAspending, open.canada.ca, AusTender, Contracts Finder, CEPII BACI. Edition of 3 November 2026.

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